Fantasy Sports Guide at gamerisms

This fantasy sports introduction at gamerisms presents the knowledge
required to participate in sports leagues. This comprehensive 5-part
guide
includes the basics, formatting, sports team options followed by a
2-part glossary, facts-trivia report and quiz.
Let’s begin with the basics.

Fantasy Sports Basics

The FS industry has been one of the fastest growing Sports and Gaming
industries in the last five years. FS can be played in many
variations and have been around for over 20 years, but the last 5 years
have yielded
astronomical revenue and user numbers resulting in a multi billion
dollar industry played by over 100 million people all around the
world. If you’re reading this
guide, there’s a good chance that you have some idea of what
Fantasy Sports is, but just in case, here’s the simplest way to
explain.
If you are sports gamer, you are picking
a sport, and assigning players from that sport to form a team that you
will manage, and compete against other managers who have also assembled
their own team.

FS Formatting
To participate, select the sport that interests you most and then join
a league to compete in play. The most commonly played sport is
fantasy football, followed by fantasy baseball, which will be detailed
below. There are
however many other sports that you can play including basketball,
hockey, soccer and even MMA=Mixed Martial Arts. These sports are
lumped together, because
they are played on the international level.
If you’re wondering
about individual sports like golf and Nascar, these are offered as
well, and in several
formats. Once you decide on your sport, you can join a public
league on one of many sport sites, or you
can join a private league, that requires an invitation.

Private leagues are typically a group of friends that know each other
and will compete against each other. You may not know all league
members, but if you receive an invite to join, it could be an awesome
chance to meet people.
Once you have your sport and your league lined up, a draft date will be
assigned. The draft date is the most exciting day of any
respective fantasy sports season, because this is the day that you will
get to choose your
team. Once you choose your team, it will be matched up against
other members of your league that have all selected their own team of
players to compete.

Everyone thinks they have the best team on draft day, but the true
draft day winner is not determined until the championship is awarded at
the end of the season.
Drafting players really deserves its own section, but naturally it’s
assumed you are at least a partial fan of the sport you are going to
compete in. If so, you are going to draft players not only that
you like, but that you think will
be productive throughout the year. It is difficult to unpack any
further without examining a couple of the bigger sports more closely.

Fantasy Football
Fantasy Football is definitely the most popular of the fantasy
sports. At the end of the day, many people enjoy watching
football, and fantasy football allows them to attach themselves to a
sport they already love, while being
heavily vested into player performance and game outcomes.
With football every league has its own settings, which will determine
how many managers will join (usually 10-12), what size roster you will
draft and how points are allocated. A standard fantasy football
roster will have at
least 1 QB, 2 WRs, 2 RBs, 1 TE, 1K and a Defense.
At this point
you likely have an idea who you would prefer to fill those spots, but
understand; you won’t get every
player you want because there are others in the leagues who value the
same players you do. The team you draft will likely be awarded
fantasy points for
TDs=touchdowns, any yardage metric, and sometimes receptions.

The next step is to draft your team. Traditionally drafts were
snake drafts where every player would pick up the best player in the
first round and the second round would happen in reverse order. After X
amount of rounds (usually
15-17), your roster is full and you are ready to compete.
Every
week you will match up against someone else in your league and if your
chosen team accumulates
more fantasy points than your opponents, then you WIN for that week.

Fantasy Baseball
Fantasy baseball is possibly the purest of fantasy sports
available. Baseball is a numbers game and fantasy baseball
organizes all of those numbers in a format that allows the manager to
track the stats their drafted team has
accumulated.
With baseball every league has its own settings, which will determine
how many managers will join (usually 10-12), what size roster you will
draft and how points are allocated. A standard fantasy baseball
roster will consist of
at least one player who plays every position including pitchers.

The
team you draft will likely be awarded fantasy points for hitting
stats such as Runs, HRs, RBIs, and
batting avg. on the offensive side and Ks, SVs, Ws, and ERA on the
pitching side.
Once you draft your team, there no question that baseball is as much
fun to follow as football or any other fantasy sports available.
Traditionally drafts were snake drafts where every player would pick up
the best player in the
first round and the second would happen in reverse order. After X
amount of rounds (usually 15-17), your roster is full and you are ready
to
compete.

Baseball leagues can be both head-to-head or rotisserie
which means your total stats in each category are tracked for the year
and the higher you rank in each category the better your team is deemed.

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